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The Trogdon family name comes from his Euro-American lineage, and the Heat-Moon name reflects his claimed Osage lineage. William's father, Ralph Grayston Trogdon, called himself "Heat-Moon," his elder half-brother from his mother's previous marriage was called by his stepfather "Little Heat-Moon," and he was called "Least Heat-Moon."
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... born William Trogdon. Summary. In 1978, ...
William Least Heat-Moon (born William Trogdon) was the acclaimed writer of the bestseller Blue Highways (1982) when he began to write PrairyErth. Blue Highways had been a book about his wanderings along America's little-travelled byways, and while PrairyErth is similarly about the undiscovered heart of the United States, it focuses much more ...
William Asbury Thompson: William Lundigan: I Was an American Spy: Claire Phillips: Ann Dvorak: I'll See You in My Dreams: Gus Kahn: Danny Thomas: Jim Thorpe – All-American: Jim Thorpe: Burt Lancaster: The Lady and the Bandit: Dick Turpin: Louis Hayward: The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale: Anna Neagle: The Magic Box: William Friese ...
Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia.After a 3-month cattle drive, he is 10 days late in delivering the herd, and Major Albert Stedman informs Kelly that he must now take the cattle by rail to a plantation in Virginia, 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Richmond at only $1 a head extra.
The story begins in the Elizabethan era, shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. On her deathbed, the queen promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it, along with a generous monetary gift; both Orlando and his heirs would keep the land and inheritance forever, but Elizabeth will bequeath it to him only if he assents to an ...
The Key is a 1958 British-American war film set in 1941 during the Battle of the Atlantic.It was based on the 1951 novel Stella [] by Jan de Hartog (later republished as The Distant Shore and The Key) and was directed by Carol Reed.
A strange and strangely magical film from the very uneven filmmaker Tay Garnett, One Way Passage is a movie that once seen is unlikely to be forgotten... the film's brilliant balance of cynical comedy (provided by Frank McHugh and the wonderful Aline MacMahon) and tragic – ultimately mystical – romance."